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White House Backs Away From
Bush '02 Nuclear-Terror Warning

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Robert Block and

Greg HittStaff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Updated Feb. 10, 2004 9:54 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON -- The White House stepped back from a high-profile assertion by President Bush, in his January 2002 State of the Union Address, that U.S. forces had uncovered evidence of a potential attack against an American nuclear facility.

In the speech, Mr. Bush warned of a terrorist threat to the nation, saying that the U.S. had found "diagrams of American nuclear power plants" in Afghanistan.